3/8" Fuel Vent Screen

hi Chuck Holly from West marine with the West Marine portable fuel system for outboard powered boats you know in 2011 the EPA changed the rules for how much gasoline vapor could kind of escape from a system like this and so working without wood we came up with five different components to help control gasoline vapor and to meet the EPA requirements the first is a fuel tank that's entirely sealed and as a result it has to be extremely strong you could actually inflate this to almost 20 pounds per square inch without bursting it so it's very strong but in addition its low permeation plastic which means that the gasoline that you put in there stays in there it doesn't escape through the plastic like it has been tradition with a lot of other tank materials it's a multi-layer tank very very rugged the second invention is to have a filler cap that doesn't have a vent on it now it actually has